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John Watkiss

Credited as:

Colorist, Penciller, Inker, Cover Painter, Artist

John Watkiss is a popular illustrator with an extensive artistic career that has taken him from the field of advertising to the world of graphic novels and movies. Watkiss has worked for world-famous companies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Ridley Scott Associates, Francis Ford Coppola, Dreamworks, Twentieth Century Fox and Disney. He is best known for his comic work as artist on projects for Vertigo including SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE, TRIGGER and DEADMAN.

Collecting issues #1-10 of the Vertigo title that inspired the new hit series from Warner Bros. TV on Fox!Christopher Chance, a.k.a. The Human Target, from the aftermath of 9/11 to baseball steroid cover-ups; from reemerging 1960s radicals to an aging con man looking for that last taste of freedom, as he goes undercover in his most gripping stories yet

Collecting the second and third story arcs (issues #5-12) from writer Matt Wagner's acclaimed reimagination of the original Golden Age Sandman, SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE VOL. 2: THE FACE AND THE BRUTE finds the Sandman of 1939, Wesley Dodds, and his possible paramour (and narrator) Dian Belmont involved in a series of grisly murders in New York's Chinatown - murders that threaten to reignite the bad old days of the Tong Wars, when blood ran in the streets like water.

The third volume collecting Neil Gaiman's seminal, award-winning series starring the Dream King in deluxe format. ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 3 presents several key SANDMAN tales in a slipcased hardcover edition, including "Brief Lives," in which the Sandman's sister Delirium prevails upon her older brother to help her find their missing sibling, Destruction. But their journey through the Waking World has dramatic repercussions for their family and also for the relationship between the Sandman and his wayward son, Orpheus.

This volume collects the first five issues of the artful, unique series exploring the mysteries of life and love after death. When Brandon Cayce is killed in a horrifying airplane wreck caused by his brother, he must confront the riddles of life and death head-on. Brandon realizes the person with the answers to save him from his demise may be his late brother's own wife — a woman he once loved himself.

The second collection of VERTIGO's gripping, Harvey-nominated series (reprinting #6-10) follows Christoper Chance across America. From the wages of sin and redemption in Boston; to the remnants of '60s radicalism in the mid-West; to a favor to a friend in Los Angeles, Chance comes face-to-shifting-face with the religion, politics, and anything-but-casual sex.